Veserr@sh.itjust.works to News@lemmy.world · 9 hours agoLAPD releases footage of moment officers shot and killed woman’s dogwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square8linkfedilinkarrow-up186arrow-down13cross-posted to: usa@midwest.social
arrow-up183arrow-down1external-linkLAPD releases footage of moment officers shot and killed woman’s dogwww.theguardian.comVeserr@sh.itjust.works to News@lemmy.world · 9 hours agomessage-square8linkfedilinkcross-posted to: usa@midwest.social
minus-squareZedstrian@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up47·8 hours ago Her two-year-old golden Saint Bernard doodle runs to the door and barks at the officers, whose faces are blurred in the video. The point of body camera footage is accountability; blurring the faces of the officers involved takes that away.
minus-squareSerinus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·4 hours agoIt doesn’t have to. As long as there’s an actual trial or otherwise justice.
minus-squareZedstrian@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 hours agoThere will probably at best be ‘officer training’ with no meaningful accountability; uncensored body camera footage at least puts more pressure on officers to prevent such incidents from happening in the first place.
The point of body camera footage is accountability; blurring the faces of the officers involved takes that away.
It doesn’t have to. As long as there’s an actual trial or otherwise justice.
There will probably at best be ‘officer training’ with no meaningful accountability; uncensored body camera footage at least puts more pressure on officers to prevent such incidents from happening in the first place.